Course Guide ~ HIST 125 / Black Metropolis / StoryMaps

General

• Census Enumeration District Finder
• Chicago Ward Maps with Enumeration Districts
• FamilySearch
• U.S. Census Bureau: Instructions to Enumerators

1910 Census

• Search: United States
• Browse: Cook County > All Enumeration Districts

1920 Census

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• Browse: Cook County > All Enumeration Districts

1930 Census

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• Browse: Cook County > All Enumeration Districts

1940 Census

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• Browse: Cook County > All Enumeration Districts

• Black's Blue Book
  Chicago: Ford S. Black, 1918, 1919, 1921. (Internet Archive)
   
• How to Find Chicago City Directories (Chicago Geneaology)
   
• Polk's Chicago Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders, 1928-29
  Chicago: R. L. Polk, 1928. (Chicago Historical Society Collection)

Chicago

• Chicago History Museum Images
  Online access to many of the most significant, exciting, and popular materials in the museum's collection.
   
• Chicago Public Library Digital Collections
  Photographs from Chicago Public Library's special collections.
   
• Explore Chicago Collections
  Online portal to digital images and finding aids from Chicago libraries, museums and archives.

• Souvenir of Negro Progress: Chicago, 1779-1925
  Digitized compilation of material published by John Taitt in 1925 found in the New York Public Library digital archive. Includes images of businesses and community centers on Chicago's South Side.

• The Negro in Chicago; A Study of Race Relations and the Race Riot, by the Chicago Commission on Race Relations
  Digitized images from the 1919 report on the Chicago Race Riot. 

• Images of Chicago taken from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information

General

• Critical Past
  Stock image and video footage. Royalty free.
   
• Internet Archive
  The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format that includes texts, audio, moving images, software, and archived web pages.
   
• Library of Congress
  The largest library in the world includes millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. Many collections are available online.
   
• Sonic Dictionary
  A growing collection of sounds and exhibits created by students at Duke University and collaborating institutions.
   

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

• Volume 3 (1911)
  12th St [N], Lake Michigan [E], 31st St [S], Emerald Ave/Archer Ave/Grove/Clark [W]
   
• Volume 4 (1912)
  31st St [N], Lake Michigan [E], 39th St [S], Western Blvd [W]
   
• Volume 13 (1895, 1926)
  39th St [N], State St [E], 57th St [S], Robey [W]
   
• Volume 14 (1895, 1926)
  39th St [N], Lake Michigan [E], 57th St [S], State St [W]
   
• Volume 15 (1895, 1926)
  57th St [N], State St [E], 71st St [S], Robey [W]
   
• Volume 16 (1895)
  57th St [N], Lake Michigan [E], 71st St [S], State St [W]
   
• Volume 25 (1924)
  71st St [N], State St [E], 87th St [S], Ashland Ave [W]
   
• Volume 26 (1923)
  71st St [N], Stony Island Ave [E], 87th St [S], State St [W]
   
• Volume 27 (1923)
  71st St [N], Lake Michigan [E], 87th St [S], Stony Island Ave [W]

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